Tagged Higher Education

What is on the five-year horizon for academic and research libraries? Which trends and technology developments will drive transformation? What are the critical challenges and how can we strategize solutions? These questions regarding technology adoption and educational change steered the discussions of 77 experts to produce the NMC Horizon Report:...

The expert panel has completed voting and the topics for the NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Higher Education Edition have been selected — below. The report is a collaboration between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE Program, set to be released in February 2017 at the ELI Annual Meeting. We’re now looking for any...

A summary and infographic reveal key outcomes and next steps for innovating solutions to improve postsecondary student success across the US. The NMC hosted the Personalized Learning & Student Success Summit at SXSWedu on March 7-9 in Austin, Texas. The summit convened grantees and partners of the Postsecondary Strategy at the Bill &...

Lenoir-Rhyne University | Hickory, North Carolina | June 6 - 10, 2016 The NMC member Appalachian College Association (ACA) and the NMC are looking for dynamic presenters who are fluent in technology trends and challenges in higher education. The ACA’s annual Teaching and Learning Institute (TLI) convenes both new and seasoned faculty from...

The 2016 Horizon Project Higher Education expert panel has spoken! They have just selected the six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in educational technology that will be featured in the upcoming NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition, to be released at the ELI Annual Meeting in February. The...

Recently, I was reading a blog post by Christopher Pappas, an eLearning expert who addressed the common mistakes we see in online course development. The ones that really jumped out to me were aimed at how instructors transition from live classes to virtual spaces. As I was reading, I reflected on the many subject matter experts (SME) I have...

The 2015 NMC Technology Outlook for Brazilian Universities is a collaborative research effort between the New Media Consortium and Saraiva to inform Brazilian higher education leaders and decision-makers about important developments in technologies supporting teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in higher education across the country. An...

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has embarked on a groundbreaking initiative that will investigate factors for distance education and competency-based education (CBE). The Distance Education and Technological Advancement (DETA) Research Center is three-year collaboration with the University of Wisconsin System, UW-Extension, Milwaukee...

The NMC and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly released the NMC Horizon Report > 2015 Higher Education Edition in a special session at the 2015 ELI Annual Meeting. The 12th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an...

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